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"First published serially in 1840 -- 41 in Dickens' own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock , and in book form in 1841, The Old Curiosity Shop was an immediate popular success. The heart-wrenching story of Little Nell and her doting grandfather offered a rich amalgam of misery and malice, goodness and generosity, love and loyalty -- all with a pervading veneer of sentimentality that greatly appealed to Victorian readers. As the story opens up, Nell...
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A triumphant story of a father and his little boy—and a love that knows no limits.
Rob Coates is a survivor.
He'd thought he'd won the lottery of life—a beautiful home, an incredible wife Anna, and their precious son Jack, who makes every day an extraordinary adventure. But when tragedy befalls his family, Rob becomes his own worst enemy, pushing away all he holds dear. With his world now suddenly just outside of...
Rob Coates is a survivor.
He'd thought he'd won the lottery of life—a beautiful home, an incredible wife Anna, and their precious son Jack, who makes every day an extraordinary adventure. But when tragedy befalls his family, Rob becomes his own worst enemy, pushing away all he holds dear. With his world now suddenly just outside of...
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The Dead Don't Dance is a bittersweet yet triumphant love story—a tale of one man's journey through the darkness of despair and into the light of hope.
In a sleepy rural town in South Carolina, Dylan and Maggie Styles are a young couple in love, preparing eagerly for the birth of their first son. But events take a tragic turn in the delivery room, and their child is delivered stillborn. When Maggie hemorrhages and slips
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A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor
In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss.
"Displaced" returns us to a young man's Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries
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The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot. Like other novels by George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss articulates the tension between circumstances and the spiritual energies of individual characters struggling against those circumstances. A certain determinism is at play throughout the novel, from Mr Tulliver's grossly imprudent inability to keep himself from "going to law", and thereby losing his patrimony and bankrupting his family, to the...
8) Playing hurt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Chelsea Keyes, a high school basketball star whose promising career has been cut short by a terrible accident on the court, and Clint Morgan, a nineteen-year-old ex-hockey player who gave up his sport following a game-related tragedy, meet at a Minnesota lake resort and find themselves drawn together by the losses they have suffered.
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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In a world wracked by increasing violence and horror, Forgiveness: stories of our time brings hope that there are other possibilities beyond blind revenge, no matter how violent the crime - and that in forgiving others we can set ourselves free. Horrific stories of personal loss illustrate the power of forgiveness.
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"With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time, King collects ten of her finest short stories-half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new-opening fresh realms of discovery...
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"An honest, practical, as well as emotional guide to working through the processing of mourning" (Vogue), Grief Works is a lifeline for all of us dealing with loss and a handbook to help others—from the "expected" death of a parent to the sudden and unexpected death of a child or spouse.
Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. Julia...
Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. Julia...
12) The returned
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When their son Jacob, who died tragically at his 8th birthday party in 1966, arrives on their doorstep, still 8 years old, Harold and Lucille Hargrave must navigate a strange new reality as chaos erupts around the world as people's loved ones are returned from beyond.
15) The goodbye book
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Little, Brown and Company
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2015.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Illustrations and brief text relate how a person might feel when they lose someone they love.
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2020]
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viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"A Yale physician's fascinating and wise exploration of why so many people die poorly and how a medieval bestseller on the art of dying well holds important lessons for today"--
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A mother's death can make a shambles of schedules, priorities, agendas, commitments, and, sometimes, even our most important relationships. A mother's last breath inevitably changes us. Drawing on his own experience of loss, as well as those of others, Harold Ivan Smith guides readers through their grief, from the process of dying through the acts of remembering and honoring a mother after her death.
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Planeta
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2016.
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192 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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"Elaborar un duelo no es tarea sencilla, algunos quieren entender el proceso fríamente, otros optan por seguir al corazón y entregarse a todos los sentimientos y emociones que de la pérdida se generan. Pero hay un tercer grupo, aquellos que deciden que lo que están viviendo no los va a destruir, sino a construir en mejores personas. Este grupo de valientes requiere de una guía, un acompañamiento intelectual y emocional que les dé ese pequeño...
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